- Wobbly_guy
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Posted by: Highlights
Posted by: Wobbly_guy
The AR is a very good weapon if used by someone capable. It's much better than the halo 3 AR, which required bleedthrough beatdown to be somewhat useful. And bleedthrough beatdown doesn't even count as an AR kill. The halo 3 AR is way to unnacurate to be effectively used. The reach AR can fire like this, which has a lot of range, accuracy and is nearly as fast as firing full-auto.
Right now it's more effective at mid range than at close range, due to the fact that, when firing in 2-shot bursts, you don't need to fire any slower the further you get from your opponent. It takes about 19 hits to kill with it, which is equal to 9.5 2-shot bursts. In the above video, it takes about 2.5 seconds for it to fire those. The DMR and the needle rifle kill at their maximum fire rate in about 1.5 seconds and 2,0 seconds, respectively.
At a distance, both the needle rifle and the DMR can't use their maximum fire rate, and need to slow down. (At least, ideally, it would be. In reality, the DMR suffers much less from bloom than the needle rifle does, and can thus fire much faster.)
What I'm proposing is that either they decrease the amount of bullets needed to kill with the AR from 19 to 16, and decrease the auto-aim on it to balance it out, or increase the DMR's bloom so that it does miss when fired to fast, like the needle rifle does now.
You already made a thread about all that and I dont agree. The AR is not a good weapon in the right hands. Yes you can fire it in bursts for more accuracy blah blah but a skilled DMR user will ALWYAYS beat a skilled AR user at any range in a 1v1.
I still think it should be nerfed mid range and buffed short range. Because its useless right now.
Read what I wrote. I said the AR is a good weapon, but it still gets outclassed by the DMR. Because the DMR can spam without any real penalty. The needle rifle needs to fire slower at a distance and will as a result fire slower than the AR can kill.
If the bloom did what it's supposed to be doing, making people who spam miss, like it does with all other weapons, the game would be a lot more balanced.
And no, you can't agree or disagree with me. The only I've stated were facts. Just being inferior to the DMR doesn't make it a bad weapon.
Oh, and like the previous thread, this assuming you're playing vanilla.